More than 300 million people speak French. Most of their pastors have never had access to seminary-level teaching in their own language. For nearly twenty years, Huguenot Heritage has been translating and producing it — and giving it away.
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Jacques is being ordained in a large denomination in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Years ago someone handed him a flash drive containing teaching in French. He shared it across Congo until he lost it — then rode a bus for more than ten hours to ask a Third Millennium partner for another. He got something better: a micro-SD card holding twenty seminary courses translated and produced by Huguenot Heritage.
“My favorite series is on The Apostles’ Creed.” It was the very first course we ever translated.
Free teaching travels further than any of us expected. Here is where Huguenot Heritage courses are training pastors today.
The Presbyterian Church of Cameroon — a denomination of millions — chose Huguenot Heritage courses to retrain its leaders after years of liberalism. Several Bible schools are already running on them, with more than two hundred students. Our French partner Daniel Oddon carries the courses in on thumb drives, pocket audio players and solar projectors.
Twenty-plus courses delivered and about twenty-five at completion, which is the credit hours required of a Master’s degree. Next: publishing neglected Reformed voices like Jean-Marc Berthoud, pictured with Francis in Lausanne, for the same readers.
Many more testimonials arriving from the field regularly! We will highlight some of them here.
The founding charter of Huguenot Heritage names four purposes: reach French speakers with the Gospel as the Huguenots proclaimed it; translate the best Reformed teaching into French; host retreats and conferences in France; and welcome Americans into the story of the French Reformation.
In partnership with Third Millennium Ministries, we translate and produce their seminary courses in French — manuscripts and ebooks, audio, and video — and release them free. Four courses remain to complete a Master’s-level curriculum.
Books by under-published Reformed theologians, audiobooks, practical-theology video series, and the Psalms sung in French — all on the free Heritage Huguenot app, and in print.
Pastors’ conferences in France, church-planting partnerships in Quebec and France, and a growing network of French-speaking leaders who want a new Reformation for the francophone church.
You may not read French. The pastors you are funding do. This shelf comes from the Heritage Huguenot app — two dozen course series, more than a hundred video lessons, twenty-five ebooks and three audiobooks, free on the web and on iOS and Android.
Built for a pastor who downloads at a hotspot and watches offline. Video, audio, manuscripts and ebooks, with progress tracking — on the web, iOS and Android.
Post tenebras luxThe Huguenots were the Christians of the Reformation in France. They gave the world Calvin’s Institutes, the Genevan Psalter, the verse numbers in your Bible. And after 1685, a diaspora of refugees whose faith shaped Holland, Prussia, South Africa and America. Today fewer than one in a hundred French people is an evangelical believer.
Huguenot Heritage exists to carry that Gospel back to France and to the French-speaking world.
For 20 years our primary mission was the translation of a seminary curriculum from our partner Third Millennium Ministries into French. While that will continue as new courses are produced and updated, the curriculum required for a Masters degree is almost complete, with only a 1-2 years' worth of work (3-4 courses) remaining. The vision for the next 20 years is in reaping the harvest of the planting we have done. We have planted a vineyard, but the grapes need to be picked and produced.
What does that look like? Our new app plays a major role: distribution to every part of the world. But this new medium also opens many new opportunities to publish additional materials that will teach and encourage the French-speaking saints across the globe. From books (like those of Jean-Marc Berthoud), to instruction on singing the Genevan Psalms and other hymns, to lectures and sermons and articles, our app (and thumb drives and even printed books) will equip a new generation of Christians.
A complete, free, Master’s-level seminary curriculum in French, built course by course with Third Millennium Ministries.
Jean-Marc Berthoud and other neglected Reformed voices, audiobooks, instructions on singing the Psalms, practical teaching for Christian families, and a documentary on the Waldensian Huguenots.
Pastors’ conferences in France, church-planting partnerships, and a place for weary pastors and scholars to read, write and rest — a gathering point for a new Reformation in the French-speaking world. More on this coming soon!!
Born and raised in France, Francis trained as a chef in the elite world of Lyonnaise gastronomy before being mentored into pastoral ministry by a missionary church-planter. He studied at the Reformed Seminary in Aix-en-Provence, was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America, and with his wife Donna planted churches near Montreal and in Lyon. He founded Huguenot Heritage in 2007 and serves as Third Millennium Ministries’ French Project Coordinator.
Donna, a French teacher from Florida, is the ministry’s Vice President of Production — and the final grammar check on every course.
A course costs about $60,000 to take from English manuscript to finished French video — and then it teaches for a generation, for free. Monthly gifts are what let Francis stay in the studio instead of on the road raising support.
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